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On 3/13/2025 at 3:56 PM, Brandon Staggs said:

To be fair, they are being very straightforward about it being a "version 1" release and it isn't even enabled by default.

 

Well sure. But isn't this pretty lame? Who does version 1 releases that don't work? They might be upfront about all of its deficiencies, but good developers produce software that works. 

 

We've all used VS and VSCode and PyCharm and so on, and they work and shine. And then 12 months passes, it's 2025, and Emba come out with 5000 bug fixes and a 64 bit IDE that doesn't work. 

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Just now, David Heffernan said:

Well sure. But isn't this pretty lame? Who does version 1 releases that don't work? They might be upfront about all of its deficiencies, but good developers produce software that works.

I wouldn't mind if they just released it as a technology preview (which is what it is) - on the side.

 

But then what is this release exactly? Sure there are a bunch of bug fixes but have we been paying maintenance all this time to just get a major release (and this is a major release regardless of their silly numbering scheme game) with nothing but fixes for bugs that we already worked around long ago?

 

Will we have to wait another year for something substantial? Two years? Maybe the roadmap can tell us - oh, wait; There's no roadmap, because stupid excuses that nobody ever believed anyway.

I asked my manager today if we shouldn't just cancel our Delphi maintenance and gamble on nothing of substance being released the next 3 years (which is the break-even point). The last time we did this (XE3-XE8) we saved a bunch and didn't miss a thing.

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I went from XE7 to 11.something and only upgraded to get high DPI support which was worth it. Not sure what would get me excited from here. 

 

Probably would be copilot like goodness in the IDE. 

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